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Please Explain: The Microbes Inside

In Please Explain, we set aside time every Friday afternoon to get to the bottom of one complex issue. We'll back up and review the basic facts and principles of complicated issues across a broad range of topics — history, politics, science, you name it.

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Laurence Molloy
from NY, NY

I have been involved with mold for 40 years and my web site, www.Laurence Molloy.com has a peer reviewed article about the health effects of mold exposure.

I am deeply concerned about what is going on with abatement of mold after Sandy. Very few sites are testing for existing or residual mold and people are being exposed to massive amounts of dangerous mold. Customarily, an air test is taken before abatement and a clearance test after abatement to make sure that there is no residual mold in the house. Now very few owners or tenants are testing at all.

I recently did a post abatement air test in a house in Long Beach and found large numbers of dangerous mold still present, mostly because the abatement had been botched. The living room had 5,120 Stachybotrys mold spore per cubic meter of air. Stachybotrys is a very dangerous mold.

i didn't hear anyone mention the subway - how worried should we be and what steps can we take protect ourselves from subway infections?The Atlantic Magazine ran a story about DNA and genetics warfare specifically engineered to kill targeted individuals by use of their DNA info.

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